[lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator

Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Nov 8 15:16:03 PST 2006


On Wednesday 08 November 2006 16:47, Doug Henwood wrote:


> 1) What's a leftist?

Would you get any two members of this list to agree on that one?


> 2) How is Sanders not one?

I haven't seen anything from Sanders, at least since he went to Washington, that would surprise you coming from Ted Kennedy. He's a mildly liberal Democrat, for all practical purposes, and on no topic more so than the Middle East. There's a local paper, the Vermont Guardian, which particularly enjoys roasting Sanders on this topic:

www.vermontguardian.com/local/072006/CandidatesAndKings.shtml


> 3) Could a leftist by your definition, assuming Sanders isn't one,
> ever win an election outside Woodstock or Berkeley, or even there?

Dunno, and I don't much care. I'll grant your point, though, at least to the extent that there are probably better tasks for a leftist, whatever that is, than trying to get elected to the Senate -- at least until conditions in this great country change significantly.

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Michael J. Smith

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